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Mrs Moreau's Warbler : How Birds Got Their Names
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Mrs Moreau's Warbler : How Birds Got Their Names Hardcover -

by Moss, Stephen

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  • Title Mrs Moreau's Warbler : How Birds Got Their Names
  • Author Moss, Stephen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Faber & Faber, Incorporated
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 39524116-20
  • ISBN 9781783350902 / 1783350903
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 6.3 x 1.4 in (20.57 x 16.00 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Birds, Terminology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.014

From the rear cover

Cuckoo, chiffchaff and kittiwake: just three of many names based on the bird's sound.

Wheatear: nothing to do with ears of wheat, but the Anglo-Saxon for "White-arse".

Hobby: whoe scientific name, Falco subbuteo, inspired the table-top football game.

Dartford warbler: originally found near Dartford, yet never sighted there again.

Cuddy's duck: local name for the eider, whose feathers were made into eiderdowns.

Bananaquit, festive coquette and screaming piha: the world's most unusual bird names?

Mrs Moreau's warbler: the touching love story behind the name of one of the world's rarest birds.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Booklist, 12/01/2018, Page 20
  • Library Journal, 11/15/2018, Page 90
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/15/2018, Page 0

About the author

Stephen Moss is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and author. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain. His books include The Robin: A Biography, A Bird in the Bush, The Bumper Book of Nature, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds and Wild Kingdom. He is also Senior Lecturer in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. Originally from London, he lives with his family on the Somerset Levels, and is President of the Somerset Wildlife Trust. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian.

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